❓ Hon Giz Watson inquires about the status of the Bellevue fire health monitoring register and any analysis of long-term health impacts. The Minister confirms the register is maintained but no long-term analysis has been done, citing data collection limitations for a planned database linkage.
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(1) What is the status of the Bellevue fire health monitoring and surveillance register established in 2001 following the Waste Control fire disaster?
(2) Has the Department of Health undertaken any analysis of the long term impacts to human health in the Bellevue community from the Waste Control chemical fire?
(3) If yes to (2), will the Minister please table the analysis?
(4) If no to (2), why not?
(2) Has the Department of Health undertaken any analysis of the long term impacts to human health in the Bellevue community from the Waste Control chemical fire?
(3) If yes to (2), will the Minister please table the analysis?
(4) If no to (2), why not?
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Answered
9 March 2009
Responded by
Minister for Transport representing the Minister for Health
Response time
97 days
Answer
(1) The Register continues to be maintained by the Department of Health. It contains relevant details of 235 registrants comprising 196 adults and 39 children. 50 of the 196 adult registrants were emergency services personnel responding either directly or indirectly to the fire.
A small number of registrants elected to provide additional information, such as a medical record, following a visit to their consulting general practitioner. However, there has been little additional information provided in recent years.
(2) No. However, in August 2003, a publication entitled
"Summary of the First Report from the Bellevue Health Surveillance Register"
was released.
(3) Not Applicable.
(4) One recommendation of the Report referred to in the answer to Questions (2) was that "the whole Register should be linked to the Western Australian hospital morbidity database and Emergency Department database in five years time (2008)". This linkage cannot be completed until data collection for 2008 has been finalised for both databases.
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(1) The Register continues to be maintained by the Department of Health. It contains relevant details of 235 registrants comprising 196 adults and 39 children. 50 of the 196 adult registrants were emergency services personnel responding either directly or indirectly to the fire.
A small number of registrants elected to provide additional information, such as a medical record, following a visit to their consulting general practitioner. However, there has been little additional information provided in recent years.
(2) No. However, in August 2003, a publication entitled
"Summary of the First Report from the Bellevue Health Surveillance Register"
was released.
(3) Not Applicable.
(4) One recommendation of the Report referred to in the answer to Questions (2) was that "the whole Register should be linked to the Western Australian hospital morbidity database and Emergency Department database in five years time (2008)". This linkage cannot be completed until data collection for 2008 has been finalised for both databases.
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